President Bartlet's injury leaves Chief of Staff McGarry to face multiple crises and Sam accidently spends the night with a call girl.

Seaborn ignores warnings from co-workers and pursues a relationship with a call girl, and C.J. involves herself in a public dispute between the president and vice president.

President Bartlet lets his emotions get the better of him when responding to the downing of an American jet and C.J. hounds Sam for trying to rescue a call girl from her job.

Leo thinks he may have to give up too much to get five more House votes regulating the sale of automatic firearms, and Toby faces ethics questions over his stocks.

Guilt gets the better of Josh when he gets a safety notice none of his co-workers receive and looks into whether he was the president's first choice for communications director.

Toby and Mandy try to influence some congressmen into approving a commerce bill with a census-counting provision and the president chastises Leo after finding out his wife left him.